Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-01-14
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Judge William Mclaughlin of the Augusta
circuit, is holding a special term of the Cir
cult Court of Fauquier county, to try the
cases growing out of the suspension of Payne
& Co., late bankers at Warrenton. Several
of the most important OF the cases have been
compromised, and it is probable most of the
others will be settled in the same way. A
number of nice questions as to the liability
of drawers, indorsers and depositors are in
volved in these cases.
A Henry county correspondent of the Rich
mond 'Whig," says that 'Judge S. G. Whit
tie went into Office on the first of this month
as judge of the Circuit Court, succeeding
Judge H. M. Ford, whose term of Office ex-
pired by limitation. Judge White is an &C.
complished lawyer and gentleman, and will
be an ornament to the bench" Judge w. is
brother of Mr.. G. Men. Whittle of Staunton.
The Allegheny Sentinel" says, ,'Dr. Pey-
ton, proprietor of st. Alberts Hotel in
Charleston, W. Va, with his brother, has
been looking at the McCurdy House with a
view to lease"
A Chicago merchant reveals the secret of the
fact THAT may be useful to our Staunton
merchants) that while in cold weather other
show windows are heavily frosted his renal n
clear and transparent. He has his windows
rubbed twice each week with cloth dipped
in glycerine.
There are 1874 veterans in the Soldiers Home
at Richmond, divided out as follows: From
Virginia, 81 South Carolina, Z; Texas, /;
Georgia 2; Mississippi, l.; North Carolina, g.;
Tennessee, 2; Alabama, 2; Maryland, 2; Flor
ida, 1; Louisiana 1, and Kentucky, 2. Total,
1874. Among the inmates is J. B. Bryan, Co..
L 5th Va; j. W. Brown, Co. D SID Va; Robt
Lorton, Co. G 4th Va; Geo. Mears, Co. H
9Th Va, and G. F. Voorhees, Co. D I'd Va.
The Harrisonburg spirit of the Valley
says that by the breaking of an axle Mrs
Robt. Vanlear, while riding in spring wagon
from Augusta county in company with her
husband was thrown under the horse with
her child in her arms. Her head was badly
cut and being far from any house she had to
remain in the intense cold till another vehi-
Gle could be gotten. She is seriously i'll from
the shock.
In Suffolk, on the 9Th inst, Rev. James
Murray, D. D., pastor of Bethel church in
Augusta county, officiated at the marriage of
his niece, Miss Mary A. Darden to Mr.. r. r.
Prentis, member of the Suffolk bar.
Rev. j. l. Miller, formerly of Staunton
pastor of the Lutheran church in Luray, was
presented with well filed purse, Christmas,
by his congreg alton, as token of their esteem.
Sol Smith Russell says he is going to retire
from the stage because he has an annual in
come of Sc, 500 and is tired of work.
At White Rock Sabbath School in Allegheny
county, Christmas, they had Jacobs Ladder,
and the ''SentineP' says: '"The ia useful
presents selected by Mrs. Fannie Shirley in
Staunton, were thankfully received by each
and every member of the school"
More game has been shipped from Highland
this season than ever before. The Recorder,
says that one firm in Monterey has sent off
1000 rabbits, 200 pheasants, 400 partridges, 6
whole deer and rs saddles and 1909 pounds
of poultry, This is the shipment of only one
store, and there are some fifteen others in the
county.
The New Jersey Supr eme Court has given
Karl Polack damages for injuries to colt re-
ceived from the barbed wire fence of his
neighbor, Samuel Hudson. The court held
that an owner had no right to erect any fence
without taking into consideration the natural
habits of the animals that were likely to be
kept in the adjoining field, "their habits in
their playfulness, their disposition to stray,
even their disposition to break through" and
that any fence which vas likely, from the
habits of the animals, to produce injury to
then, was illegal, and the person erecting it
liable tor the damage it did
1t the Centennial anniversary of the Col
lege of Physicians of Philadelphia. the honor
of Associate Fellowship was conferred on DR.
Hunter MEG Apf Richmond. President of
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the America -. Association.